Monthly Archives: November 2007

Storm Live in Bergen | 4th December 2007

29th November 2007 » Permalink: Storm Live in Bergen | 4th December 2007

Storm – Live in Bergen
Chris Watson ｬ BJNilsen
Bergen Kino
4.12.07 MB1

18:30 Chris Watson & BJNilsen perform live their soundtrack to the film by Ole Mads Vevle ‘Tanakh Bibelen Al-Quran’
18:45 Storm

Touch 25 reflections

29th November 2007 » Permalink: Touch 25 reflections


Readers viewers & listeners will have noticed that the 25 year anniversary celebrations have lasted well beyond their alloted timespan. Maybe it is our response to a time-based conundrum, to further the question concerning what we are doing with our time.
These two texts were written in close proximity to the Touch 25 CD released in February 2006, and having got somewhat lost in cyberspace, are here re-presented in their unedited form.

The first was a commission by Computer Arts magazine, published in June 2006 though written a few months earlier. The second, “Digital Glass”, was written for the London College of Communication site ‘Limited Language’, both forming part of a work in progress called “On/Off”. [Jon Wozencroft, 28th November 2007]

The Moon Is Down
Digital Glass

Weather Report in The Guardian’s 1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die | 22nd November 2007

22nd November 2007 » Permalink: Weather Report in The Guardian’s 1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die | 22nd November 2007

‘Weather Report’ is named in The Guardian’s ‘1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die’ List…

Chris Watson is one of the world’s leading recorders of wildlife and natural phenomena, and here he edits his field recordings into a filmic narrative. The unearthly groaning of ice in an Icelandic glacier is a classic example of, in Watson’s words, putting a microphone where you can’t put your ears.

Instinct wins RTS award

19th November 2007 » Permalink: Instinct wins RTS award

Instinct (ITV), for which Touch did the music design, won a RTS NW award for Best Single Drama or Drama Serial on Saturday 18th November at The Hilton, Manchester

Today in The British Library | 16th November 2007

16th November 2007 » Permalink: Today in The British Library | 16th November 2007

The Ghost Train by Chris Watson
The British Library
16.11.07

Take the ghost train across Mexico, coast to coast, Pacific to Atlantic, Los Mochis to Veracruz. Ride the rhythm of the rails on an acoustic journey that has now passed into history. Travel through the heart of Mexico on board the most exciting, beautiful and dynamic feat of engineering that this country has ever seen.

The Ghost Train celebrates the sounds of a project that fuelled a revolution. [Chris Watson, September 2007]

TO:78 – Oren Ambarchi “In the Pendulum’s Embrace”

2nd November 2007 » Permalink: TO:78 – Oren Ambarchi “In the Pendulum’s Embrace”

CD – 3 Tracks – 41 minutes

Oren Ambarchi continues his otherworldly investigations with “In The Pendulum’s Embrace”, a dark twin to his landmark 2004 album “Grapes from the Estate” [Touch # TO:61]. Returning again to the hallowed halls of BJB Studios in Sydney, Ambarchi expands the scope and range of his unique musical language, incorporating an even broader pallette of instruments and sensibilities. Despite the use of glass harmonica, strings, bells, piano, percussion and guitars, it’s startling that the world created is still unmistakably his own, and that there is such a cohesion of vision throughout the albums’s three lengthy pieces. With this record there’s an even more tenuous coexistence of fragility and density; sounds as light as air mingling with wall shaking low-end. The converted already know the kind of trance-inducing euphoria of Ambarchi’s music. Newcomers will be scouting the back catalogue…

Track list:

1. Fever, A Warm Poison
2. Inamorata
3. Trailing Moss in Mystic Glow

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